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Jinn?
Reportedly an eavesdropper, constantly striving to go behind the curtain of heaven in order to steal divine secrets. Grants wishes.
Bio?
Species: featherless biped, chocolate addict
Roots: born in Sweden — lived also in Switzerland, USA, UK — good genes from Sweden, Norway, India, Germany
Languages: French, English, Swedish, German, Portuguese, Latin, Ada, Perl, Java, assembly language, Pascal, C/C++, etc.
Jobs: factory worker, farmhand, supermarket cleaner, programmer, language lawyer, soldier, lecturer, software engineer, consultant, director of technology, solutions architect, programme manager, methodology lead, quality and risk manager, writer
Projects
Write a book, quickly.
Read, more.
Sleep, less.
Travel in Europe and America, v.soon.
Find a job, again.
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Friday, April 26, 2002 ![[this day]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/dailyLinkIcon.gif)
User-Centered Design Methodology [Da Vinci Usability]
A process for incorporating usability engineering into the systems and web site design process, applying three essential principles of usability: understand your users, involve end users in the user interface design process, and follow industry-wide user interface standards. ![[this item]](http://radio.weblogs.com/0103811/images/sharpPermaLink3.gif)
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Anthropologist Nardi on Collaboration Software
Bonnie Nardi, a design anthropologist at Agilent Labs, is interested in "information ecology" and speaks out on what collaboration software can and ought to support. She generally tries to find "a middle ground between technophilia and technophobia." (Also, for some strange reason, she dislikes passwords, firewalls, and retaliation against terrorists.) See also an interesting profile/interview at Argus Center for Information Architecture.
Web Accessibility Haiku
Don't abuse markup
Follow specifications
There for a reason
Accessibility: it's not just a good idea, it's the law [diveintomark]
By US Federal Law (section 508) two categories of software — programs used to create websites as well as browsers — must be accessible.
It is not widely understood that 508 regulations have been in effect and enforceable since June 21, 2001. They're not coming down the pike; they're here already. In practice, there is no actual enforcement; we are living in a kind of grace period. But the requirements eventually will be enforced, and noncompliant products could not be bought by the U.S. government thereafter.
Macaulay on Copyright [kuro5hin]
Today I would like to share with you a speech made in 1841 by Thomas Babbington Macaulay, a brilliant philosopher, critic and historian who was himself a great enemy of historical parochialism. The speech is on the topic of copyright, and the theories set forth became the basis of copyright policies in the English speaking world for well over a hundred years. These theories now popularly superceded by theories of natural rights to intellectual property.
Be forewarned: this speech is long, and far more intellectually challenging than most modern political speech. But the mind behind it is lively and incisive, and you may be surprised by how little the fundamental issues have changed, and how some of the disingenuous arguments put forth today echo those of the far past. Judge for yourself whether the politicians to day are wiser than those of a hundred and sixty years ago.
Segway, then what? Ginger's next trick
Forget the scooter. The Stirling engine that is expected to eventually power it will be the motor of a transport revolution.
Interaction Design Patterns
Very cool repository of Web interaction design patterns.
Experience Design (interview)
Clement Mok is alive! Current president of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, he served as a creative director at Apple for five years before founding Studio Archetype in 1988, an interaction design and branding agency. When Sapient acquired Studio Archetype in 1998, Mok became Chief Creative Officer — then left about when the "Internet bubble" burst.
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